Republican lawmakers and witnesses lambasted the SEC for what a House Financial Services Committee memo called the agency’s “rapid push to propose and finalize numerous new rules, insufficient comment periods, neglecting bipartisan congressional concerns and finalizing new rules that exceed the SEC’s statutory authority,” during a March 20 hearing before the committee.

In a new SEC video, Chair Gary Gensler discusses the commission’s role in overseeing corporate governance and highlights three SEC rules that CII promoted early and often.

Shareholder proposals filed for the 2024 proxy season on environmental and social proposals mostly track those filed in past years, according to Proxy Preview 2024, a report released by As You Sow, the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact.